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PRESS RELEASE

August 10, 2006

FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security's Steganography Analysis and Research Center will participate in the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Challenge. This competition involves the identification and recovery of digital data that has been hidden or damaged. "They will be dealing with all of the things we encounter to obfuscate data," said James Christy, director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute. "We’re trying to stimulate some research into tools and processes" for data recovery. The challenge being issued will be to extract data that has been hidden or is on damaged media such as floppies, CDs and DVDs. The challenge will include steganography, password cracking, and image analysis.

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